Mid summer fruiting vegetables

Here are some of my climbing vegetables producing fruits, most which can be harvested any time.

Fuzzy gourds/wintermelons: The fuzzy gourds tend to be longer, and wintermelons are more round, but both taste about the same. Fuzzy gourds are better adapted to grow on trellises while the wintermelons are better grown on the ground because they are really good at growing roots off their stems, especially when soil is mounded over them.

 

Pictures of my garlic in the fall of 2012

Garlic tends to grow a little bit in the fall. The foliage is usually hardy enough to make it through our zone 6a winters without much damage, and they come back much stronger by March. I grow around 2000 cloves each year not including the bulbils that take 1.5 years to reach full size.

Here are some of my garlic beds